A Yahoo executive said it is currently developing its own web browser as part of plans to 'revitalize' its search offering, and would also consider the purchase of other browsers.

Internet company Yahoo Inc. — backed by owner Apollo Global Management Inc. — would bid for the Chrome web browser if a federal court orders Google to divest it as a remedy for maintaining an illegal monopoly,

If Chrome changes hands, the first shake-up would be the default search setting. Yahoo could flip the address bar to its own engine within hours, diverting millions of clicks away from Google. OpenAI, in turn, could replace links with conversational answers on the page, challenging the very idea of the ten-blue-links format.